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Pool Designs 1 Min Read

Natural Pools Can Prove to be an Excellent Home Update Idea

If you are in search of home update ideas, which will help to enhance the external look of your beautiful house, then consider building a natural swimming pool, in your backyard. Natural swimming pools in comparison to artificial swimming pools are more beautiful and attractive to look.

Moreover, in contrast to artificial pools, natural swimming pools require minimum maintenance and cleaning. They also helps to give your home a natural and countryside look. Building natural pools are much easier and economical than artificial pools. You can plant small plants and trees, all around the pool to create an idyllic surrounding. You can even set up a small fountain or spring at one end of the pool, to give it a more natural look.

You can also design a small sitting area, near the pool, where you can spend time with your family and friends, in the midst of nature.

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Hotels 2 Mins Read

Luxury Hotel Silken Puerta In Madrid

The Hotel Silken Puerta América Madrid is an idea of freedom come true, a gathering space merging different cultures and ways of interpreting architecture and design. A masterpiece that awakens guests’ senses, that breaks the mould by using different colours, materials and shapes. A 5 Star Luxury Hotel that ushers guests into innovative spaces, a bold departure from the usual. A compilation of designs from 19 different architects, this eclectic luxury hotel features two contemporary restaurants, a bar, a nightclub, a fitness center, and a heated indoor swimming pool. The 12 guestroom floors were each created in the vision of a unique international architect giving the rooms individualized design and décor. All rooms include complimentary wireless Internet access.

The Hotel Silken Puerta América Madrid is a space that invites people to dream – a neverbeen- attempted-before project that has brought together nineteen of the top architecture and design studios in the world from thirteen different countries. Originality, luxury, innovation and formal freedom define a hotel that awakens its guests’ senses. Each of the floors showcases a different concept in hotel rooms. All play with different materials, colours and shapes to create spaces that bring together the best in avant-garde design and architecture, where creativity and the freedom to develop each of the spaces has been the hallmark.

The Hotel Silken Puerta América Madrid is an eclectic, daring space that does not sell comfort short. Rooms with luxury in their finest detail that entice guests to search for new forms, to interact with them, to touch, to see, and even to breathe and smell… In short, to utterly enjoy a unique space that stands out especially for its quality and wide range of services. 12 different floors, 12 ways of understanding the architecture and the design. A hotel that is unique in the world.

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Top 10 Unique Pillows For Your Home

Pillows can be used to freak people out, as a conversation starter, or to simply accent a piece of furniture. I have collected some of the strangest pillows, and possibly you will find a pillow that matches a friend or relative’s personality or interests. Some of the following pillows are really weird and some of them are just plain cool. Either way, I hope that you find a pillow in the price range and style that you have been looking for.  Take a look at some of coolest pillows ever.

1.Blood Puddle Pillow

If your idea of a good time is tricking people into thinking you’ve been shot, these blood puddle pillows are perfect for you. Well, not completely perfect, because I don’t know how many people out there would believe your blood was made out of pillow. I know I would, but I also believe Abraham Lincoln was a part time astronaut.

2.Alarm Clock Pillow

The glo Pillow is an alternative to the traditional alarm clock. It was designed with teammate Eoin McNally in response to a brief to create a product which helps to combat the pressures of a “24 hour” lifestyle.
The pillow uses an LED fabric substrate below the surface to wake the user using light. This substrate also functions as a display, showing the time on the pillows surface using the grid of LEDs below.

3.Boy Friend Pillow

Wrap yourself up around the Boyfriend Body Pillow. This boyfriend arm pillow is a soft body pillow that looks like the torso of a man with a comforting arm that cuddles and holds you throughout the night. Feel safe and warm sleeping comfortably on his chest. This original pillow can become a great gift for a friend or relative with a good sense of humor that would love to have a little more cuddling at night. You will enjoy the comfort and warmth this body pillow gives and also the way that he wraps around you and holds you all through the night without snoring or saying a word. It is as if he knows exactly what you lik.

4.Girl Friend Lap Pillow

The Girlfriend Lap Pillow. A creative pillow design which allows one to sleep on the lap of a lady.  A pillow called the “Lap Pillow” will be released. It is a pillow imitating a woman’s legs made from urethane foam. Just like I’m sure you understand as you look at the picture, this product has quite an impact. Although it’s a pillow, it’s wearing a skirt. Not just any skirt — a tight miniskirt, even.

5.Tissue dispensing Pillow

It’s good to see that crying is finally receiving some recognition in the design world, even though the fabulous German innovator Design 3000, lists the ThenCry pillow as a “First Aid” product! What better “treatment” for crying than the warmth of a cozy pillow that dispenses tissues. A crying pillow is so comforting, like a teddy bear, only more huggable. Everyone needs a special pillow for low times… especially if they don’t have to go searching for a box of tissues, which is so disruptive to a good cry! Children should always have a ThenCry in their rooms wherever they throw themselves when things don’t go their way.

6.Rock Pillow

This is your opportunity to bring nature indoors in one of the most unique and exciting ways.  Whether creating your own indoor Rock Garden, or turning a child’s playroom into an imaginative wonderland; with these unique designer pillows you can create your fantasy.  There are many ways to show off and enjoy these stylish throw pillows.  Amazing in their simplicity.  Shockingly realistic.  Surprisingly comfortable.

7.Pizza Pillow

This Pizza Pillow is certain to wake your taste buds, made of high quality printing on a round polyester shell, stuffed with polyester filling. Measuring 12″ diameter, pizza pillow features the pizza toppings on one side, while the back resembles the pizza crust view from the bottom.  The Pizza Pillow design is a cute one for pizza lovers and food lovers as a whole. It may not give you a pick of your own pizza toppings, but it does provide the ability to have your own Pizza pie with you even while you sleep.

8.i Sleep Laptop Pillow

In past we have seen ‘Comfy Pillow While Working On A Laptop’ and ‘The Napbook: The Laptop Bag That’s Also A Pillowcase’. And now we have i-Sleep by Ivonne Dippmann. Here we have a comfortable soft i-Sleep pillow with which you can sleep on your laptop. i-Sleep pillow can be attached on top of your laptop. If you feel sleepy, just close your laptop, and a pillow gets filled with warm air, music is being played and after 10 minutes the alarmclock rings. Now this is something which most of us need!

9.Emotion Pillow

The Emoticon pillow set is good for expressing your feelings when you are around your loved ones at home. You can throw an emoticon at someone  if you want to make them aware of your mood! Or when you want to make a statement. You can even keep them handy around your desk. The emoticons are so cute that you really feel like hugging them. You can use them to decorate your room, your car or even your work area to cheer things up  a bit. Each Emoticon Pillow is approximately the size of the palm of your hand, so they’re good for keeping around your desk and you can rest your face on them when you need a short and quick break form your work or your computer monitor.

10.Alt-Ctrl-Del Pillow

Reboot your livingroom with this three pillow set. Light gray pillows look as if they’ve jumped right off your keyboard. Set of three pillows. Made from Eco-Felt  these 12″ pillows are soft yet durable. Backs have envelope enclosures so the pillow inserts can be removed for easy washing. Machine wash cold with like colors then tumble dry on low.

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Most Creative Sinks For Your Home

You can be wise and creative by choosing  sinks. This creative idea leaves you with two benefits. This is where you have to be really creative. White and biscuit are the two predominant colors that people love. You would generally find both white colored and biscuit colored sinks from any leading manufacturer. Also there are number of products with attractive curves and designs. Especially the lengthy pedestal can provide much scope to attractive designs. This is where you must be choosy and creative. We present you the most creative and sinks you’ve ever seen.

Disegno Ceramica has introduced a line of sinks and bathroom  fixtures that show off a playful form while making no sacrifices when it comes to function. The most attractive is the Splash Collection comprising a shower base, wall hanging wash basin and a pedestal sink. Three colors plus white are available.

This sink features no visible pipes and a self draining surface. The linear design aspect contains both a visual and physical function. Designed by Will MacCormac, the curve of this sink is very slight so it can reduce splashing effectively, and the slots are used to guide water into the hole.

This particular gadget illustrates how important it is to conserve water. When you are using this sink to wash your hands, the fish loses its real estate if you take too much time. Yes, the water level in the fish bowl will actually go down if you are scrubbing your hands too long. In case you are wondering, there are safety features so the fish won’t have all of its precious water taken away. Just to let you know, you are not using the same water that a fish inhabiting. It’s just made to appear that way. The truth is the fish water drains underneath the sink, and then will return to normal.

Want to draw your guest attention to your sink? This waterfall sink from CBD Glass might be the answer, just look at the picture. The wall-mounted glass waterfall sink is an extraordinarily versatile and beautiful architectural element for the way we live today, enhancing the elegance and style of any bathroom.

Forget filling up the sink with water-this Abisko Washbasin from Eumar is more a water flume than a sink. Turn on the faucet, and the water flows all the way down its undulating shape, draining through a strategically placed grate. There’s also a version that turns the mini-river you create into a waterfall. We’d like to see something in between, turning your wastewater into whitewater rapids. No pricing info was available, but this is cool enough to sacrifice a bit of money down the drain.

In this sink each piece was clearly individually sculpted. The surrounding decor suggests an elegant setting- so really, it may have been a bold move to include such sexy  bathroom sinks in whatever location this may be.

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Architecture 1 Min Read

A Portable Mobile Office by Dutch Designer Tim Vinke

Dutch designer Tim Vinke has created a mobile office made up of a desk and two chairs that fit together like pieces of a puzzle to form a trolley. Called Kruikantoor, the piece is made from light-weight foam and equipped with wheels. It can be swiftly packed up, transported and set up somewhere else. The portable unit also includes a light, storage and electricity connection.
The ‘Kruikantoor; exists out of 2 chairs, a table, light, electricity connection and storage space.  The object is crafted from EPS Foam, covered with a coating existing of polyurea hotspray. Another interesting and creative idea.

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Incredible Bottle House, Look

I don’t know to what point it is stable and solid but this is surely original. This house was completely made from bottles with some glue mixture. A building construction style which usually uses 1l glass bottles  as masonry units and binds them using adobe, sand, cement, stucco, clay, plaster, mortar or any other joint compound  to result in an intriguing stained-glass like wall. An alternative is to make the bottle wall from 1/2l glass jugs filled with ink and set them up by supporting them between 2 windows.   Although bottle walls can be constructed in many different ways, they are typically made on a foundation  that is set into a trench in the earth to add stability to the wall. The trench is filled with a rubble of pea gravel and then filled in with cement.

Rebar  can be set into the foundation to add structural integrity. Bottle walls range from using one bottle as a filler in a thin wall to making walls two bottles thick. Most intriguing though, is the wall made from bottles cut in half, matched, and joined to another bottle of the same size and color. Primitive mixture, such as cob or adobe, are made from a mix of sand, clay, and straw. This is used as the mortar  to bind the bottles. It is thickly spread on the previous layer of bottles followed by the next layer which is pressed into the mixture. Typically two fingers of separation are used as a means of spacing although any kind of spacing can be achieved.

Bottles can also be duct taped together to create a window-type effect. Two similar size bottles can be taped together with the openings allowing a light passage way. This also traps air and creates a small amount of insulation. Filling glass with liquid that will be subjected to freezing and thawing is not a good idea, but is useful if the glass is protected from temperature extremes. When the bottles are filled with a  liquid, or other dark material, the wall can function as a thermal mass, absorbing solar radiation during the day and radiating it back into the space at night, thus dampening diurnal temperature swings. A typical mortar mix is 3:1 mason sand to a pozzalan  cement mix. Other mixtures could be made from mortar and clay, adobe, cob, sand or cement. Bottle walls are extremely versatile and could be bonded with pretty much anything that can endure its given climate.
It is believed that the first bottle house was constructed in 1902 by William F. Peck in Tonopah, Nevada. The house was built using 10,000 bottles of beer from Jhostetter’s Stomach Bitters which were 90% alcohol and 10% opium. The Peck house was demolished in the early 1980s.

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